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Topic: What the editorial boards are
saying about Obama's future |
What the editorial boards are
saying about Obama's future
Los Angeles Times, by Alexandra Le Tellier
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Posted By:Drive, 11/8/2012 8:03:21 AM
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| Editorial boards across the nation weighed in with their endorsements for president in the weeks leading up to the Nov. 6 election. The Opinion L.A. blog rounded up a few of these political endorsements to show the range in support for President Obama versus the enthusiasm for Republican challenger Mitt Romney. Now that the election is finally -- mercifully! -- over and Obama has won reelection, here’s a look at what many of those editorial boards were saying Wednesday.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Axeman, 11/8/2012 8:14:18 AM (No. 8998896)
From LAT? I don't want to puke. I need some lib to read it and then not tell me about it.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
CEP, 11/8/2012 8:24:45 AM (No. 8998925)
Start out with the premise of blaming Bush, I.e. problems of 2008, it would seem to me they want cover for the disaster of the next four years. Obama couldn't overcome what those republicans did to wreck the economy.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
FlyRight, 11/8/2012 8:33:25 AM (No. 8998958)
This is a round-up of what other editorial boards are saying, not just the LA Times.Closed minds don't learn anything.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
J F Ackerman, 11/8/2012 10:03:07 AM (No. 8999227)
Not one of these 'papers' is dealing in reality. Obama hates the Congress; won't work within our Constitutional framework; will continue to act outside the law in an Imperial Presidency. Will any of these 'papers' stand up to him in a second term? No.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
gam, 11/8/2012 10:19:51 AM (No. 8999295)
He might as well send Congress home and save the expense to spend on Michelle's vacations and the next $4750/a plate state dinner. He overrides any Congressional legislation and hands power to his czars. Thesse editorial boards live in LaLaLAnd. Deals don't make it happen. What deal is going to hold in the Middle East. I expect our intelligence community to lose man of their agents as they figure out that they will be left out to die as in Benghazi. America is toast.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Persecutor2, 11/8/2012 10:31:12 AM (No. 8999349)
Interesting read--seems to me like the papers that endorsed 0 (with the exception of the NYT, of course) actually scold him more than the papers that endorsed Romney. The ones that endorsed Romney, OTOH, seem to be more completely buying into the fantasy that 0 can emerge as some kind of practical, non-partisan, centrist bridge-builder. They all make the mistake of thinking/saying that Americans as a whole want the two parties to stop fighting and work together to solve the big issues. I don't see it that way at all, I see two Americas with vastly different visions that cannot be reconciled. Neither wants their side to give in to the other. All this biz about "coming together to slove the nation's problems" strikes me as Pollyanna-ish blather.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
NorthernDog, 11/8/2012 10:42:29 AM (No. 8999390)
Agree w/ #6. Only the LAT points out that his negative and hugely expensive campaign with a narrow win will handicap him.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
lalo, 11/8/2012 10:42:48 AM (No. 8999392)
#6 I agree, and your post reminds me of Boehner, appro of which - is pie-throwing illegal? He would be the prime candidate in my book.
As for the LAT, #1 - there are worse papers; they do allow a certain amount of good stuff & truth to slip through.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec, 11/8/2012 11:31:06 AM (No. 8999542)
The next democrat nominee in 2016 will also blame Bush by saying the economy was so bad that even Obama couldn`t fix it after 8 years in office.
I think we are in for a long run of democrat president`s. Who does the GOP have that can contend? Big Media now dictates who wins the WH.
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